Re: [RFC v7 24/25] powerpc: Deliver SEGV signal on pkey violation
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: 2017-08-18 21:54:42
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: 2017-08-18 21:54:42
On Fri, 2017-08-18 at 10:04 -0700, Ram Pai wrote:
Assume two threads of a task.
T1: mprotect_key(foo, PAGE_SIZE, pkey=4);
T1: set AMR to disable access for pkey 4;
T1: key fault
T2: set AMR to enable access to pkey 4;
T1: fault handler called.
This fault handler will see the new AMR and not the
one at the time of the fault.You aren't context switching AMR with the threads ? Ugh... something is very wrong then. Ben.